I actually used an old Intellimouse Explorer 2.0 from 2003 today -- it's in my laptop bag for those times when the trackpad just doesn't cut it.

Still works pretty well. The button hardware switches are a bit old and some of them produce signals that are too noisy for the signal bounce processing chips to filter out. So, the wheel button registers a single click as a double basically 100% of the time (PITA when using it to open new tabs in a browser), and the "forward" button does the same 50% of the time (much less frequently an issue). Not half bad for 15 year old hardware, really.

After these phased out of popularity, I switched loyalties to Logitech and then more recently Razer. But the hand feel of the chassis (which will be the exact same for this reboot version) of the Explorer was really quite excellent. Might have to look for one!

I came to hear the arguments. I stayed for the insanely beautiful video. The lady is not half-bad-looking either!

For a rappity hiphoppety song this is not half bad

Yeah, it gets a little boring sometimes, Enoch, but what doesn't? The place is what you make of it for the most part. Lots of people, including me have their complaints and things they'd like to change. Still I'm fairly convinced it's the Best Little Town on the Internet as far as community goes. I'm still convinced that the work we do here is pretty groundbreaking for how communities organize themselves on the Web. I haven't hung out in many forums, but VideoSift seems to me to have more user empowerment and self-moderation than any I've seen. Dag and Lucky keep a very loose hand on the reins. Things often run amuck because of it, but we learn a lot when that happens.

So don't say goodbye, say "see ya later", and take a break. Come back and post some videos because I appreciate you're unique perspective and it adds to the diversity of thought, even if you think no one appreciates it. Keep in mind that there are thousands of unregistered users reading what you write. Your voice is important.

Send along some of your prose, but be forewarned that I am a ruthlessly constructive critic. I'd say that a full 80% of my waking life is spent in creative pursuits, and the process is very sacred to me.

Anyway, see ya later. I find two weeks is all it takes to make me miss the Sift.

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this place is beginning to bore me.yet i find myself reticent to leave my fave fuzzy friend who wears the funny hats.anarchist ministers are not welcome here,that has become painfully obvious.

maybe there was a point in time where stirring things up and helping people perceive things from a different view brought a twinkle to my eye,bit now it just bores me.
nobody is interested in anything different,just the same regurgitated crap.
its like watching one big group circle jerk.
some great people,just...boring.

ill still post some videos.i know some will appreciate them,but i dont feel any urge to participate in giving free reach-arounds.
i been spending much of my time writing anyways,and i have been having a pretty good discussion with iamtheblurr.he seems a decent sort.
if you are interested i can throw ya a link to some of my material.its not half bad,for a hack like me.
keep fighting the good fight brother,you a cool cat.
stay cool brother..stay cool.

For an 80's flick, it was not half bad. Some of the stuff in the movie was pretty good/funny. Getting on a line carrying a peice of timber, now THAT, must have been fun.

"Ha, I got up here finally." "Now get down..." 'Oh, that's easy" "....in the dark." (CRASH) "ow!"

this place is beginning to bore me.yet i find myself reticent to leave my fave fuzzy friend who wears the funny hats.anarchist ministers are not welcome here,that has become painfully obvious.

maybe there was a point in time where stirring things up and helping people perceive things from a different view brought a twinkle to my eye,bit now it just bores me.
nobody is interested in anything different,just the same regurgitated crap.
its like watching one big group circle jerk.
some great people,just...boring.

ill still post some videos.i know some will appreciate them,but i dont feel any urge to participate in giving free reach-arounds.
i been spending much of my time writing anyways,and i have been having a pretty good discussion with iamtheblurr.he seems a decent sort.
if you are interested i can throw ya a link to some of my material.its not half bad,for a hack like me.
keep fighting the good fight brother,you a cool cat.
stay cool brother..stay cool.

The joke was not half-bad.

but the laughter...

the laughter...

Cthullhuesque.

Edward's acting was actually not half-bad. The others, not so much.

Pretty cool. And you're right about the music; it's not half bad, it's entirely bad!

That's not half bad, actually.

Not half bad...

Matched some of the words...Worked nicely.

that's not half bad snaremop, where are my arms and legs though... i want iron giant sifter